The article, while not very in-depth (it's the Opinion section, after all), does at least provide differing perspectives on the N.H.S. Typically, whenever any mainstream media outlet writes about Britain's national healthcare, the standard procedure is to find a few young Americans who have never dealt much with health care here but spent a few months in England, got the flu, and suddenly fell in love with taxpayer-funded medicine. They're confirmation bias ("Yay single-payer!") fluff pieces and nothing more. I don't even know that many Brits and it probably wouldn't take me more than thirty minutes to find ten of them who are disgruntled with the N.H.S.

Side note: I made need some medical attention after writing something that was almost nice about the Times Opinion page.